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Tajikistan: first suspected swine flu death reported
The Times of Central Asia - central asia news - Publishing by Blackwood Press, Founder by Giorgio Fiacconi
?She is suspected of dying from swine flu, and therefore, her tests have been sent to the diagnostic laboratory in Dushanbe.? According to Ms. Nasiba ...
KHUJAND, December 8, 2009, Asia-Plus -- A pregnant woman who died in Khujand hospital yesterday is suspected of being Tajikistan?s first swine fu fatality.
Dalil Toshmatov, the head of the Sughd health directorate, told Asia-Plus that a woman on the fourth month of pregnancy was taken to the Sughd central regional hospital in Khujand on the night of December 5-6. ?She was in serious heath condition and died Sunday (December 6),? Toshmatov said. ?She is suspected of dying from swine flu, and therefore, her tests have been sent to the diagnostic laboratory in Dushanbe.?
According to Ms. Nasiba Ikromova, the deputy director of the Sughd Center for Sanitary and Epidemiologic Supervision, a 30-year-old M. Buranbayeva was hospitalized on suspicion of having contracted an acute double-sided pneumonia. ?She also had an acute respiratory failure and unknown aetiology of influenza,? said Ikromova, ?Sughd province does not have a laboratory for detecting new types of flu.?
In the meantime, the deputy head physician of the central regional hospital, Muhsin Oqilov, said that the women had been taken to the hospital?s resuscitation department already ?with abnormality of essential functions.? ?We are currently taking measures in the hospital to prevent spread of any type of flu,? Oqilov said.
A woman suffering from swine-flu-like symptoms has died in northern Tajikistan in what could be the country's first reported death from the H1N1 virus, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
Tajiks Fear First Swine-Flu Death
December 08, 2009
KHUJAND, Tajikistan -- A woman suffering from swine-flu-like symptoms has died in northern Tajikistan in what could be the country's first reported death from the H1N1 virus, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
Nasib Ikromov, the regional head of health-care in Sughd Province, told RFE/RL that the 30-year-old pregnant woman was hospitalized on December 5and died two days later.
Ikromov said local laboratories are unable to confirm if the woman had the H1N1 virus and blood samples have been sent to Dushanbe for testing.
Tajikistan's deputy health minister, Azam Mirzoev, told RFE/RL last week that there were no Tajiks suffering from swine flu.
He added that there were seven people in Tajikistan with a new strain of flu but he stressed that it was not swine flu.
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